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Does this not work for you: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/124844
That is for transferring a profile to a new account which is exactly my point. I have another existing account I want to transfer the profile to. I don't want to create a new account.
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> that feels fine Sure. It's also fine for everyone they're betraying to cancel their subscriptions. I don't understand what your point is. Are you saying it isn't fine to be upset? Netflix specifically promoted account sharing. Paying for multiple streams, "love is sharing your password," etc. And they made millions of dollars off that marketing during the pandemic lockdowns. Now they want to pull the rug out from u…
While it isn’t unnatural to react so emotionally to this, I think the only thing to really ask yourself is: do you enjoy the shows and movies that Netflix has? Is it worth the price? If the answer is yes, then who cares how they evolve their terms?
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> that feels fine Sure. It's also fine for everyone they're betraying to cancel their subscriptions. I don't understand what your point is. Are you saying it isn't fine to be upset? Netflix specifically promoted account sharing. Paying for multiple streams, "love is sharing your password," etc. And they made millions of dollars off that marketing during the pandemic lockdowns. Now they want to pull the rug out from u…
While it isn’t unnatural to react so emotionally to this, I think the only thing to really ask yourself is: do you enjoy the shows and movies that Netflix has? Is it worth the price? If the answer is yes, then who cares how they evolve their terms?
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I can't think of a way they can enforce almost anything without annoying a bunch of people with false positives. If someone has a secondary home like a chalet they go to from time to time, they'd have to pay for a second account?
Presumably they know when they are streaming for a given account. They could simply say an account can be used for a single stream, and decline to start a second concurrent stream for the same account. Include download playbacks as a form of stream. The headache of coordinating watch times when sharing accounts would incentivise additional subscriptions.
Granted... We don't actually watch too much television, such that it may not actually impact us if they do it this way. Still, I imagine many families with children would be heavily impacted by this strategy.
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Yep, paying $20/mo specifically to be able to play on 3 devices. If they stop allowing sharing, there is little to no value in that plan for me anymore.
You can choose one of the cheaper plans right? For instance Basic is $6.99 https://help.netflix.com/en/node/24926
My Mom lives on the West Coast while we live on the East. She's almost 70 and on a fixed income, so I pay for Netflix access for all of us and I'm happy to do so. However, if they block her access I can't see any reason to keep my 4k plan. I can get anything we want on a Plex server and give her whatever she wants to watch that way. I was already on the fence with the lack of content on Netflix, but this may just be…
Your logic seems to conclude that you keep paying for Netflix, but that your mom will be the only one to use it.
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This is the thing, I pay for a family plan with 4 concurrent streams. I allow my mom and brother to use this account. They barely use it. But the service isn't worth $20 to me if they cut them off. I will just cancel it, and they wont pick it up either. If you sell me 4 concurrent streams, then I want to be able to use them regardless of physical location.
So you’re paying $20 for a service that you and your brother and your mother barely use? Why?
But not worth $20 for 1 movie or show a month. Better off just renting stuff or buying shows. Or for some people, worth toggling subscriptions as needed eg I subscribed to Hulu to watch The Bear, Peacock for the Olympics, Fox for the World Cup, etc. Then cancelled immediately after (with Apple I can cancel immediately after subscribing, so I don’t forget!)
I'm not sure I care that they are trying to get people to stop sharing accounts. At large, that feels fine and I'm always curious the lengths people will go through to not pay a small subscription fee. Especially for things they actively use the heck out of. (Notably, I seem to only know of people that do this where both sides of the share watch a ton of television.) I am not at all looking forward to it again thinki…
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That is for transferring a profile to a new account which is exactly my point. I have another existing account I want to transfer the profile to. I don't want to create a new account.
Ha. I see. I wonder whether they’ll add that capability. It would also be super useful when people become a couple and move in together… merging your Netflix accounts.